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Lowering US drinking age from 21 to 18 | Increase driving age to 18; reduce drinking age to 18 | PRO |
Lowering US drinking age from 21 to 18 | Drinking is healthy in moderation. | PRO |
Ban on laser pointers | Laser pointers are in popular demand. | CON |
Ban on laser pointers | Business people use lasers to give presentations. | CON |
Ban on laser pointers | Illegal use of lasers (like knives) does not justify ban | CON |
Ban on laser pointers | Laser pointers are a valuable tool for self-defense | CON |
Ban on laser pointers | The crime is very dangerous. | PRO |
Ban on laser pointers | There are enough alternatives to lasers for self defense. | PRO |
Gay adoption | Children should not be subjects of a gay adoption experiment | CON |
Gay adoption | Children do not need distinct male and female parental role-models | PRO |
Gay adoption | A changing society should not cling to traditional family models. | PRO |
Gay adoption | Homosexual parenting is just as good as heterosexual parenting | PRO |
Gay adoption | There is no scientific basis for concluding that gay and lesbian parents are any less fit or capable than heterosexual parents, or that their children are any less psychologically healthy and well adjusted. | PRO |
Gay adoption | Homophobia is wrong so should not be used against gay adoption | PRO |
Funding for space exploration | Going into space to discover the effects of space on humans is circular logic. | CON |
Funding for space exploration | The risk of us being wiped out by an asteroid like the dinosaurs is very very small. | CON |
Funding for space exploration | Humans should not bank on destroying the Earth and moving to another planet. | CON |
Catholic Church contraception policy | Catholic Church's natural family planning is ineffective | CON |
Catholic Church contraception policy | Natural methods of contraception can provide the solution to high population growth | PRO |
Catholic Church contraception policy | Evil (condoms) should not be used to fight evil (HIV/AIDS) | PRO |
Catholic Church contraception policy | Church contraception policy is supported by natural law: | PRO |
Turkey EU membership | EU states strongly opposed to Turkey's admission should not be dragged along | CON |
Turkey EU membership | That Turkey needs to reform should not block its admission to the EU. | PRO |
Ban on human reproductive cloning | Cloning is safe enough to perform on humans | CON |
Ban on human reproductive cloning | Opponents exaggerate the impact that cloning will have on the world | CON |
Ban on human reproductive cloning | If women have a right to reproduce, society can't say not by cloning | CON |
Ban on human reproductive cloning | Asexual reproduction is sub-optimal for the human species | PRO |
Trans fat ban | Other foods harmful, singling out trans fats is arbitrary. | CON |
Trans fat ban | People free to do things that hurt no one else (eat trans fats). | CON |
Trans fat ban | Trans fat ban needn't be whole solution to be good. | PRO |
Trans fat ban | Govt should protect consumers when consumers aren't fully informed. | PRO |
Banning Muslim hijab | Discriminating against Muslim forms of child-indoctrination is wrong | CON |
Banning Muslim hijab | Banning head scarves in school is an egregious state intrusion | CON |
Banning Muslim hijab | The idea that women must wear headscarves to be dignified is offensive | PRO |
Banning Muslim hijab | Headscarves falsely presume that men can't contain sexual impulses | PRO |
Assassination of a Dictator | To liberalize a regime, there are better ways than assassination. | CON |
Assassination of a Dictator | Moral absolutes exist; murder can never be justified. | CON |
Assassination of a Dictator | People would support Israel's assassinations if they lived in Israel | PRO |
Assassination of a Dictator | Targeted assassinations are consistent with international law | PRO |
Is Wikipedia valuable? | Many incomplete stub articles persist on Wikipedia.' | CON |
Is Wikipedia valuable? | Many vandalisms on Wikipedia are not corrected for months | CON |
Is Wikipedia valuable? | Wikipedia lacks the important process of peer-review | CON |
Is Wikipedia valuable? | Wikis need more users to help them grow | PRO |
Is Wikipedia valuable? | Wikipedia is not for individual prose, but superior collective knowledge. | PRO |
Is Wikipedia valuable? | Standards are always improving on Wikipedia. | PRO |
Abortion | The Hippocratic oath forbids doctors from performing abortions | CON |
Abortion | The right to choice/privacy (abortion) does not override the right to life | CON |
Abortion | Abortion advocates wrongly value quality of life over sanctity of life | CON |
Abortion | The fetus causes physical pain; the woman has a right to self-defense. | PRO |
Vegetarianism | Dominion and meat-eating can and should be excercised responsibly. | CON |
Vegetarianism | It is healthiest to eat a balanced diet with both meat and vegetable products. | CON |
Vegetarianism | Vegetarians are healthy due to their health-consciousness not vegetarianism. | CON |
Vegetarianism | Many special environments have been created by livestock farming | CON |
Vegetarianism | Human and animal differences do not justify speciism/discrimination | PRO |
Vegetarianism | Animals have rights and it is wrong to kill them needlessly. | PRO |
Vegetarianism | Humans have a choice and thus responsibility to do no harm to animals. | PRO |
Libertarianism | Society must collectively own many form of property through government | CON |
Libertarianism | Libertarian economics runs contrary to modern economic theory. | CON |
Libertarianism | People have full rights to their property that governments can't deprive | PRO |
Libertarianism | The benefits of government can be obtained by voluntary mechanisms. | PRO |
Libertarianism | Free-market economics is the ideal form of (non)governance | PRO |
Animal testing | The number of animals used in experiments should be reduced by. | CON |
Animal testing | Bible says harming animals is equivalent to harming humans | CON |
Animal testing | Animals would depict humans as the devil if they could | CON |
Animal testing | Adopting the philosophy of animal rights is individual fulfilling | CON |
Animal testing | Alternatives cannot replace animal testing for certain objectives | PRO |
Animal testing | Tested animals are treated humanely. | PRO |
Animal testing | Animals are good research subjects because they are similar to humans | PRO |
Assisted suicide | Pain can't justify euthanasia, it can be made tolerable with modern medicines | CON |
Assisted suicide | Physicians can never be obligated to facilitate euthanasia | CON |
Assisted suicide | When life can only continue unnaturally, unnatural euthanasia is OK | PRO |
Assisted suicide | Euthanasia is mainly utilized by non-vulnerable, well-educated groups | PRO |
Polygamy | Polygamy is common in some apes; from which humans descended | PRO |
Polygamy | Polygamous women can choose the right husband, even if he is married | PRO |
Tibet independence | Protecting Tibetan culture by opposing modernization is wrongheaded. | CON |
Tibet independence | The United Nations does charter discourages disruptions of national unity such as a move to Tibetan Independence. | CON |
Tibet independence | China violated Tibet autonomy as called for in Seventeen Point Agreement | PRO |
Tibet independence | Tibet can follow the East Timor model to achieving independence | PRO |
Tibet independence | China's militarization of Tibet is a regional risk | PRO |
Withdrawing from Iraq | That coalition troops are not the cause of violence is shown by the fact that most attacks are not against them | CON |
Withdrawing from Iraq | There is no military solution in Iraq | PRO |
Kangaroo culling in Australia | Kangaroos should just be moved, not culled. | CON |
Kangaroo culling in Australia | Translocating Kangaroos is not too difficult or impractical. | CON |
Kangaroo culling in Australia | Kangaroos are part of Australia's identity. | CON |
Kangaroo culling in Australia | Killing millions of kangaroos does not make it sustainable. | CON |
Kangaroo culling in Australia | The Code of Practice in the ACT helps ensures culls are humane. | PRO |
Veal | Anything which involves murdering animals is cruel . | CON |
Veal | Hutches can be more comfortable for veal calves. | PRO |
Veal | Milk-based diets are healthy and humane for veal | PRO |
Right to bear arms in the US | Bear arms means a military/militia, not individual right | CON |
Right to bear arms in the US | America's modern military makes the militia unnecessary for national security. | CON |
Right to bear arms in the US | If bear was commonly taken in a military sense, keep should also be considered in military, collective sense. | CON |
Right to bear arms in the US | If 2nd amendment applied only to militias it would be useless today | PRO |
Right to bear arms in the US | A well-regulated militia can apply to a state-run as well as an independent militia. | PRO |
Right to bear arms in the US | In order to form a militia, citizens require guns and a right to own them | PRO |
DC handgun ban | The implications of the DC handgun ban are not supported nationwide. | CON |
DC handgun ban | 2nd amendment combines right to militia and individual arms | CON |
DC handgun ban | A handgun is uniquely valuable in self defense in one's home | CON |
DC handgun ban | Alternative measures can be taken in place of a ban to stem crime and murder. | CON |
DC handgun ban | A strong majority of DC residence support the DC handgun ban. | PRO |
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